The next person chosen to help decide mortgage rates Melinda Cilento, head of economic think tank CEDA, will become the newest member of the nine-person board responsible for setting interest rates in Australia. AAP · Aug 14
Meet the federal public sector's most influential people Part 1: the public servants who are steering the ship. The Canberra Times · Aug 2
'Should be done by ATO employees': call centre jobs come back to headquarters Federal Labor has backed a change to APS call centre arrangements. The Canberra Times · Jul 26
Tax changes push biotech and health sectors offside Changes to research and development tax could force Australian biotech, med tech and health tech companies offshore, according to sector advocates. AAP · Jun 6
Modelling shows 90% of young Australians will be better off under Labor’s tax reforms The $1,000 tax deduction, $250 ‘working Australians tax offset’, and CGT and negative gearing changes will benefit most young people, Treasury secretary says The Guardian - AU · May 28
FED:Treasury chief defends Labor's beleaguered budget Controversial budget changes would have cut the lifetime tax benefits for the top one per cent of earners by $400,000 if implemented in 2000, Treasury says. AAP · May 28
Australia’s women remain an untapped resource in the hunt for productivity Female empowerment is more than just ‘nice to have’, as I was once told in the halls of parliament. It’s good economic policy The Guardian - AU · Aug 23, 2025
The Conversation · Jun 12, 2025 It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters For the first time in its 124-year history, Treasury will be led by a woman.
The Conversation · Jun 10, 2025 Albanese announces first woman Treasury secretary and a ‘roundtable’ on boosting productivity Treasury head Steven Kennedy will become Anthony Albanese’s right-hand bureaucrat, while Treasury will get its first female secretary, with the appointment of Jenny Wilkinson, who currently heads the Finance Department.
AAP · Jun 10, 2025 Economic summit aims to firm up drooping productivity Anthony Albanese is confident businesses and unions can find common ground in the quest to improve Australia's ailing productivity.
The Guardian - AU · May 30, 2025 ‘It’s just maths’: uninsurable, disaster-hit pockets of Australia pose existential questions requiring radical answers As Taree and NSW’s mid-north coast reel from flooding, questions are moving beyond immediate recovery to how crises could be handled in the future
The Guardian - AU · Jul 14, 2023 RBA lifer Michele Bullock may have the luck of playing good cop to Philip Lowe’s bad The Reserve Bank of Australia’s first female governor will begin her appointment at or very near the end of the cycle of rate rises
The Guardian - AU · May 25, 2023 PwC tax scandal: staff stood down over concerns problem ‘significantly broader’ than one partner Former NSW police commissioner and now PwC partner Mick Fuller contacted his friend the AFP commissioner after scandal broke, Senate estimates told
AAP · May 24, 2023 PwC staff involved in tax leak cut from public work Troubled consultancy firm PwC has promised to keep any staff involved with the tax leak scandal away from Commonwealth contracts.
Nottingham Post · Dec 11, 2022 King's Mill Hospital maternity ward staffing levels 'horrendous', say midwives However, midwifery directors say the department maintains safe staffing levels. They say they haven't gone below the minimum staffing level in the last six months
Zenger · Jul 13, 2022 Hugs Bunny: Airline Goes Out Of Its Way To Reunite Baby With A Toy A mom has praised an airline for going ‘out of its way’ by reuniting her son with his favorite toy bunny – just in time for his first birthday.
Liverpool Echo · Jul 9, 2022 Mum praises Jet2 as toddler notices something wrong after flight Jenny Wilkinson and Shaun Tennant noticed something wrong after returning from Majorca
Daily Mirror · Jul 8, 2022 Jet2 praised for putting baby's forgotten teddy on next flight - with own boarding pass Little Louis got the best first birthday present a baby could ask for after being reunited with his toy bunny, which was left on a Jet2 flight to Majorca